Combined cigarette receiver,extinguisher and discarder



Nov. 11, 1969 E. F. ADAMS ETAL COMBINED CIGARETTE RECEIVER, EXTINGUISHER AND DISCARDER Filed 001;. 24, 1967 3 Sheets-Sheet l m SS MW Y m m m A E O mam 07 m w E am A0 m L N E w I 3 7 2 1 2/ M 1 M 5 4 (l 7 :4 m G H ly T. IL T s C 0 2 Z 7 4/ 2 4 7 M Nov. 11, 1969 E. F. ADAMS ET AL 3,477,444

COMBINED CIGARETTE RECEIVER, EXTINGUISHER AND DISCARDER Filed Oct. 24, 1967 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG.IA

INVENTORS ELIZABETH FI ADAMS ANTHONY W. DU FONT JR.

ATTORNEY Nov. 11, 1969 E. F. ADAMS ETAL 3,477,444

COMBINED CIGARETTE RECEIVER, EXTINGUISHER AND DISCARDER Filed Oct. 24, 1967 3 Sheets-$heet 5 FIGS ' INVENTORS ELIZABETH F. ADAMS ANTHONY w. Du PONT JR.

ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,477,444 COMBINED CIGARETTE RECEIVER, EXTINGUISHER AND DISCARDER Elizabeth F. Adams, 142 High St., and Anthony W. du Pont, Jr., 81 Oliver St., both of Bristol, RI. 02811 Filed Oct. 24, 1967, Ser. No. 677,561 Int. Cl. A24f 13/18 U.S. Cl. 131--235 2 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A combined multi-purpose cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder for use in conjunction with the ash trays of automobiles and other vehicles, for use alone if desired, in the oflice and home, and for other purposes, the invention including a supporting bracket with a confining track and orifice in the track, assembled with a tubelike cigarette holder and extinguisher, open at both ends, having a squared base plate cooperating with and movable in the track, the latter serving as a snufier when in one position in the track, and as a discarder of the cigarette butt and debris when in another position at the outer end of the track with the bottom opening of the tube registering with the opening of the track.

The invention relates to a combined cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder for use in automobiles, aeroplanes, trucks and other vehicles adapted for facile attachment to the ash trays of said vehicles already in use or for installation by the car manufacturer in the ash tray as part of the standard equipment of the car. Or the receiver, extinguisher and discarder can be provided with means to attach to any suitable metal partition, file, ofiice or home ash tray by a permanently installed magnet, and if found desirable, by a rivet or metal screw.

One object of the present invention is the provision of a multi-purpose device which incorporates positive safety features, convenience, and constitutes a virtual necessity for drivers who smoke cigarettes while driving, hitherto a harzardous and unsafe habit, made safe by our invention.

Another object is a receiver, extinguisher and discarder for cigarettes which will within a few seconds positively extinguish the incandescent end of a cigarette when the receiving and extinguishing holder of our invention is in one position and will permit discarding the ashes and extinguished butt end of the cigarette into the automobile ash tray when the holder is moved by the touch of the finger to another adjacent position in which the bottom opening in the tube of the holder mates with an opening provided in the support in which the holder is movably positioned.

Our combined cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder has many additional uses in the office or home as the magnet-provided version can be easily attached by a magnet and/or suitable fastener to any suitably vertical positioned metal partition, file or part of a free standing metal ash tray for instant use.

Manifestly, an all-important purpose of our invention is a positive acting cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder which will minimize and hopefully positively preclude the vast ravaging of our beautiful nations natural resources through the fires caused by carelessly thrown and discarded cigarettes, by fires started by incandescent cigarettes thrown by the careless motorist into dried grass or hay.

Reverting to the receiver, extinguisher and discarder as installed in automobile ash trays, we comprehend the mounting of our invention in the ash tray so that it can be rotated on its mounting axis to position it within and out of the way when the ash tray is to be pushed into the recess in the dashboard.

Manifold additional advantages will be readily apparent from a more detailed explanation of the invention, taken together the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is an enlarged perspective view of the invention in one form of use with permanent swivel mountand holder shown in position for receiving and/or extinguishing a cigarette.

FIG. 1A is a perspective view of the invention with the holder in discharging position.

FIG. 2 is a fragmentary front elevational view of the invention in stowed or out-of-the-Way position in approximately same scale as invention will be made.

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along line 4-4 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of another preferred form of the extinguisher of our invention.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken on line 6--6 of FIG. 5.

FIG. 7 illustrates a top plan view of another modified form of extinguisher.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line 8-8 of FIG. 7.

Referring to the drawings, one preferred embodiment of our cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder is denoted generally by the numeral 5, and may, if desired, be fabricated of suitable sheet metal, and includes an L-shaped bracket 6, the vertical plate 7 of which is drilled as at 8, double-rolled at 9 to form a support 10.

This support 10 extends, as stated before, at right angles from plate 7, has oppositely disposed and identically sized upstanding sides 11, having their ends inturned or deflected forming flanges 12, to provide a track 14, 14' for manually impelled movement from one position to another of the holder and extinguisher hereinafter described. And one end of support 10 is drilled to form hole 16.

It will be noted that tab 15 extends from the free end of support 10 which is, upon assembly of the combined receiver, extinguisher and discarder 5, deflected at right angles to form a stop to prevent separation of the holder 17 from the track when the user moves the holder along track 14, 14' from the extinguishing and receiving position and also serves to cause the open bottom end 22 of the tube-like holder to register with the opening 16 to discard the extinguished butt into the receptacle of an auto ash tray or the like-see FIGS. 1A and 4.

Holder 17, formed of one piece of suitable metal, has a central and main body portion 18, forming a tube, open at both ends, with its upper peripheral edge 19 flared outwardly as at 20 and its opposite open lower end 22 right-angled both outwardly and upwardly to form a squared lower base plate 21 having side walls 23, 23' slidable in track 14, 14 which snugly fit the said track to prevent tipping, skewing or any undesired movement of the confined holder other than travel from the position shown in FIG. 1 to that shown in FIG. 4. Base plate 21 also has upstanding tabs at opposite ends thereof which cooperate with tab 15 and the rolled portion 9 for limiting the sliding movement of the holder 17 on the support 10 and in the track.

As illustrated in FIG. 1 our device 5 is attachable by any suitable fastener F inserted through drilled hOle or opening 8 in plate 7, to frictionally sustain our cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder within the tray T yet permitting the motorist to readily move the device 5 to position for use, as illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 1A, or to closed position as in FIG. 2.

When a cigarette C is dropped in holder 17 as in FIG. 1, oxygen is exhausted at the bottom of the tube within a matter of seconds, since the bottom end of the tube 22 is closed by the contiguous surface of the support 10, and the incandescent butt is extinguished in same short space of time.

The holder 17 is then, if desired, moved to the opposite position in the track 14, 14 to drop the cigarette butt and any accumulation of ashes into the car ash tray.

In another preferred embodiment depicted in FIGS. and 6 is presented the form in which the receiver, extinguisher and discarder is sold to the owner, for example one who desires to equip his auto ash tray with our safety device. Here vertical plate 25 is formed with right-angled edges 26, 26' in parallelism to confine the rubberized magnet 27 securely to the assembly, and too, drilled hole 28 is formed to utilize rivet R. The rubberized magnet may be of any desired type of resilient material impregnated with magnetic metal particles, but is preferably that manufactured by the Alnico division of General Electric and distributed under the trade name of Permag.

The support element 10, sides 11, flanges 12, track 14, 14, and the other parts of our cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder in the modification shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 are identical to those delineated in FIGS. 1 thru 4 and carry the same numerals.

It is to be noted that drilled hole 28 meets orifice 24 in the magnet.

This embodiment may be attached by rivet R to any metal ash tray, receptacle or to an oflice fileor it may be removably fastened through magnetic attraction.

The modification shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, depicts our receiver, extinguisher and discarder 29 for cigarettes with angled bracket 30 having plate 31 drilled as at 32 and side walls 33, 33 in parallelism extending at right angles from edges 34, 34 of plate 1. These side walls 33', confine rubberized magnet 5 in fixed position. Magnet 35 is orificed as at 37 to meet drill hole 32 in the plate.

Extending from plate 31 is support 38 having a pair of upstanding side walls 39, 39' recessed at its free outer end as at 40, the said walls confining magnet 41, and with the side walls 39 extending upward from the surface of magnet 41 to present a track 42 and 42.

Cooperating with bracket 30 is ferro-metal tube 43 open and flared outwardly at its opposite terminal ends 44 and 44 of this tube portion 45, with either end 44, 44' adapted for movement along track 42, 42 which is open at its ends.

This embodiment is adapted for releasable attachment by magnet attraction, or by a fastener inserted through the orifice plate 31 and magnet 35 to any metal partition, oflice file or suitable ash tray.

With tube 43 positioned in the ash tray, the bottom of the tube is closed by the contiguous surface of the support 38, and the cigarette may be dropped in the tube and will in seconds be self-extinguished as with the two preferred embodiments.

To discard the extinguished butt end of the cigarette and any accumulated ashes or debris, the tube 43 is pushed outwardly of the support 38 along track 42, 42' to discharge the debris by gravity as depicetd in FIG. 8. When not in use the holder or tube 43 may be held magnetically out of the way in the recessed end 40 of the support 38.

Obviously any length cigarette, whether regular, king size or super-king of the 100 or 101 millimeter variety will and can be extinguished in our invention by inserting the incandescent, unconsumed butt end downward in our receiver, extinguisher and discarder. There is virtually no reek or resultant tobacco fumes-no burned fingers for the motorist or other user, and complete safety.

We contemplate various sizes of our extinguisher, receiver and discarder and the employment of various materials, and various modifications may suggest themselves to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of our invention.

We claim:

1. A combined cigarette receiver, extinguisher and discarder comprising, in combination:

(a) an L-shaped bracket including a normally horizontal support and an orificed plate depending at right angles from one end thereof,

(b) said support having an opening therethrough adjacent to the other end,

(c) oppositely disposed upstanding sides on said support, the tops of said sides being deflected towards each other, and upstanding members defining stops at opposite ends of said support, said sides and stops defining a confined track,

( d) a tubular holder open at both ends,

(e) a substantially square base plate secured to sai holder and including upstanding side end walls, said base side Walls being confined and slidable in the sidewalls of said support,

(if) said base plate having an opening therein aligned with the opening at one end of said tubular holder said base being adapted for alignment of the opening therein with the opening in said support when said base is adjacent said stop,

(g) said orificed plate having a rubberized magnet secured thereto.

2. The structure of claim 1 wherein said orificed plate is provided with (a) side walls extending from opposite side edges of said support,

(b) said rubberized magnet being confined within said side walls,

(c) said rubberized magnet being provided with an orifice aligned with the orifice in said plate whereby the assembly is adapted to receive a fastening means for pivotal mounting on an interior wall of a slid able vehicle ash tray to permit rotation about said fastening means thereof to a position wherein said holder extends vertically above the top of said ash tray ready for use or horizontally within said ash tray to permit closure thereof.

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JOSEPH S. REICH, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 131237 

